Concussions soccer vs football

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Women’s brains appear to be more affected by heading a soccer ball than men’s are, new research shows. A study using brain scans shows distinct patterns of damage in the brains of female soccer players compared with male players. And women in general had more of their brain matter affected, the researchers reported Tuesday in the journal Radiology. That doesn’t necessarily translate into symptoms. None of the women in the study had any more symptoms than the men did, said the team at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. But it may help explain why other studies have shown that female soccer players are more likely to report symptoms of concussion than male players are. “Researchers and clinicians have long noticed that women fare worse following head injury than men, but some have said that’s only because women are more … [Read more...] about Heading a soccer ball harms women more than men, study finds